"Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work -- and life."
I don't know why everyone is accusing Scooter Libby of trying to direct Judith Miller's testimony just because he wrote a few 'strange' sentences in his letter to her while she was in jail. Come on, haven't these people in the Bush administration done enough to secure our trust? And besides, 'Scooter' could just be a poet at heart.
I wonder why John Bolton visited Judith while she was in jail, too? It couldn't be that all these same people who lied our way into our needless invasion of Iraq are now all trying to get their stories straight, you think?
"Dear Judy," begins the letter that has the fingers of Internet bloggers aflitter with conspiracy theories and the hearts of comedy writers aflutter about a trove of new material.
But everyone focuses on the ending.
"You went to jail in the summer. It is fall now. You will have stories to cover -- Iraqi elections and suicide bombers, biological threats and the Iranian nuclear program. Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work -- and life."
This prose flowed from the pen of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, in a letter to Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who spent 85 days in prison rather than reveal Libby as her confidential source.
In what the New York Observer called "his oddly florid letter," Libby personally released Miller from her pledge -- as she requested, having rejected a release issued through Libby's lawyer more than a year earlier.
"Your reporting, and you, are missed," Libby wrote in the Sept. 15 "Dear Judy" waiver.
"Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work -- and life."
I don't know why everyone is accusing Scooter Libby of trying to direct Judith Miller's testimony just because he wrote a few 'strange' sentences in his letter to her while she was in jail. Come on, haven't these people in the Bush administration done enough to secure our trust? And besides, 'Scooter' could just be a poet at heart.
I wonder why John Bolton visited Judith while she was in jail, too? It couldn't be that all these same people who lied our way into our needless invasion of Iraq are now all trying to get their stories straight, you think?
"Dear Judy," begins the letter that has the fingers of Internet bloggers aflitter with conspiracy theories and the hearts of comedy writers aflutter about a trove of new material.
But everyone focuses on the ending.
"You went to jail in the summer. It is fall now. You will have stories to cover -- Iraqi elections and suicide bombers, biological threats and the Iranian nuclear program. Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work -- and life."
This prose flowed from the pen of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, in a letter to Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who spent 85 days in prison rather than reveal Libby as her confidential source.
In what the New York Observer called "his oddly florid letter," Libby personally released Miller from her pledge -- as she requested, having rejected a release issued through Libby's lawyer more than a year earlier.
"Your reporting, and you, are missed," Libby wrote in the Sept. 15 "Dear Judy" waiver.
